Happy Monster Island by Phaleg G

There's probably a proscribed way to greet someone at 1 O'Clock in the morning, from behind, when you're a drunken foreigner. Not knowing what that is you go with "Moshi moshi" which is a telephone greeting but no other greeting sounds so much like "get down with your bad self".

Like talking to bamboo. There are no wires coming from her ears so you have to assume she has a hearing problem because such silent treatment would be viewed as very unrefined even as a way of censuring another rude person.

The woman seems oblivious to your presence, do you...